Roméo Sabourin
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Roméo Sabourin | |
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Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | January 1, 1923
Died | September 14, 1944 KL Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany | (aged 21)
Allegiance | |
Service/ | Canadian Intelligence Corps Special Operations Executive |
Years of service | 1940–1944 |
Rank | Lieutenant |
Battles/wars | World War II |
Lieutenant Roméo Sabourin (January 1, 1923 – September 14, 1944) was a Canadian soldier and spy during World War II.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born in Montreal, Quebec, Sabourin joined the Canadian Army, serving in the Canadian Intelligence Corps. Because of his training and fluency in both the French and the English languages, he was recruited into the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
From London, he was parachuted into occupied France where he worked with the French Resistance, but was captured by the Gestapo with members of the Robert Benoist group and shipped to Buchenwald concentration camp on August 27, 1944.
Twenty-one-year-old Roméo Sabourin was executed by the Nazis on September 14, 1944, along with two other Canadian SOE agents, Frank Pickersgill and John Kenneth Macalister.
Lieutenant Sabourin is honored on the Groesbeek Memorial in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery[2] in the Netherlands. As one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, Lieutenant Sabourin is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial[3] in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Memorial: Lieutenant Romeo Sabourin". Canada at War. 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- ^ "Casualty Details : Roméo Sabourin". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- ^ McCue, Paul (2013). "Roll of Honour of the Valençay Memorial". paulmccuebooks.com. Archived from the original on 12 June 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- 1923 births
- 1944 deaths
- Canadian military personnel killed in World War II
- Executed spies
- Spies who died in Nazi concentration camps
- Special Operations Executive personnel
- Canadian people who died in Buchenwald concentration camp
- Canadian people executed in Nazi concentration camps
- Military personnel from Montreal
- Canadian Army personnel of World War II
- Canadian Army officers
- Canadian Intelligence Corps officers